The Banner Saga series. I have had the first one in my library for perhaps a decade, tried to start it a few times and never got into it.
Until a week ago, that is, when I got past the slow start and oh my does it pick up from there! Currently nearing end of the second one and I’ve been devouring these games, outright unhealthily to be honest, but I’m going to let it take me, I think the third one ends the saga, so this has a natural end and I’ll let myself go wild until that.
It’s pretty amazing how much one can do with so little, kind of. When the story is good and writing too, and the art style works, it doesn’t need all that much in terms of technical fidelity to be amazing.
Edit: If anyone has suggestions for other games like this, I’d be more than happy to hear them. I hear king of dragonpass and its lineage is almost a perfect fit, and I remember trying one of the newer ones a decade or so ago and having a blast but never finished. Are there others?
Do you like the tactial RPG gameplay, or the story and elements around maintaining and building up your clan?
For example Final Fantasy Tactics has you building up a team as you progress through a story with tactial rpg combat, but not as much about management decisons about keeping your party alive.
There are also games like This war is mine, which has no tactical RPG elements, but is about making hard decisions trying to keep a group of people alive during war.
Oh yeah this war of mine is actually another one in this very same realm I believe, good catch! Been intending to play it, perhaps now’s the time finally
The Banner Saga series. I have had the first one in my library for perhaps a decade, tried to start it a few times and never got into it.
Until a week ago, that is, when I got past the slow start and oh my does it pick up from there! Currently nearing end of the second one and I’ve been devouring these games, outright unhealthily to be honest, but I’m going to let it take me, I think the third one ends the saga, so this has a natural end and I’ll let myself go wild until that.
It’s pretty amazing how much one can do with so little, kind of. When the story is good and writing too, and the art style works, it doesn’t need all that much in terms of technical fidelity to be amazing.
Edit: If anyone has suggestions for other games like this, I’d be more than happy to hear them. I hear king of dragonpass and its lineage is almost a perfect fit, and I remember trying one of the newer ones a decade or so ago and having a blast but never finished. Are there others?
Do you like the tactial RPG gameplay, or the story and elements around maintaining and building up your clan?
For example Final Fantasy Tactics has you building up a team as you progress through a story with tactial rpg combat, but not as much about management decisons about keeping your party alive.
There are also games like This war is mine, which has no tactical RPG elements, but is about making hard decisions trying to keep a group of people alive during war.
Oh yeah this war of mine is actually another one in this very same realm I believe, good catch! Been intending to play it, perhaps now’s the time finally